broods

英 [bruːdz]

美 [bruːdz]

v.  焦虑，忧思(使人厌烦、担忧或不安的事); 孵(蛋)
n.  (一次孵或生的)一窝鸟，一窝动物; 一大家孩子
brood的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• 一窝幼雏
  Abroodis a group of baby birds that were born at the same time to the same mother.
• N-COUNT （某人的)一群孩子，家中所有的子女
  You can refer to someone's young children as theirbroodwhen you want to emphasize that there are a lot of them.
  1. ...a large brood of children.
     一大群子女
• VERB 沉思；苦思冥想
  If someonebroodsover something, they think about it a lot, seriously and often unhappily.
  1. I guess everyone broods over things once in a while...
     我猜想每个人都会不时地琢磨一些事情。
  2. She constantly broods about her family...
     她一直为她的家人担忧。
  3. I continued to brood. Would he always be like this?
     我一直不安：他会一直这样吗？

双语例句

• He broods over past grievances.
  他在沉思过去的苦难。
• In that state the mind loses all its higher visions-it broods only on'woman and gold '.
  意识在这种状态下就会失去所有更高的异像&它只会对‘女人和金钱’念念不忘。
• She constantly broods about her family
  她一直为她的家人担忧。
• He that loves not his wife and children, feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrow.
  不爱妻子儿女的人，无异是在家中豢养著一头母狮，孵育出一窝悲恸。
• Some insects produce seven or eight broods a year.
  有些昆虫一年产七八次卵。
• The hen broods twelve eggs this time.
  这次那只母鸡孵十二个蛋。
• The hatching rate and fledging rate of the first broods and second broods were similar.
  二次繁殖的筑巢期、产卵期、孵化期都短于一次繁殖；
• Other large British broods include Derek and Debbie Simpson, from East Kilbride, who have 13 children, and the Hanns from Dundee, who have 12.
  在英国还有其他子女众多的家庭，包括东基尔布莱德市的德雷克辛普森和黛比辛普森一家有13个孩子，邓迪市的汉斯一家也有12个孩子。
• Though fear broods in the dark and the face of the sky is veiled;
  虽然恐怖在黑暗中弥漫，天空的险也被面纱遮起；
• He hunted, too, for deep-boring grubs under the bark of the trees, and robbed the wasps of their new broods.
  他也捕猎，在树干下挖掘藏在很深地里的蛴螬，从马蜂窝里抢出幼卵。